The Folk Art Instrument Builder's Guide by Charles Atchison

Description

Here is a new book by instrument builder and C. B. Gitty customer Charles Atchison. This book is a reference for the construction of functional folk art & roots instruments, containing 200 pages with over 400 pictures and illustrations and clear instructions for each topic.

This book provides detailed instructions for building the following instruments:

It also includes instructions on making your own wooden peg tuners, how to fret your instruments, make your own electric pickup, wiring the instrument, scarf necks, how to give your instruments that distressed, relic look and much, much more.

These necks are hand-made in the C. B. Gitty workshops in the state of New Hampshire, USA, and we work hard to make sure they are a high-quality product! We use these same necks on our own cigar box...

We created this cigar box guitar kit with one goal in mind - to make a kit that would allow anyone to build a real, playable cigar box guitar in about an hour at the kitchen table, with only the most...